{"id":180,"date":"2002-08-19T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2002-08-19T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-180.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"force-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/08\/19\/force-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Force fields!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/54\/26728.html\">The Register<\/a> describes a new invention for protecting tanks and other armoured vehicles.  It uses electrically charged plating to vaporise anti-tank missiles before they can penetrate the rest of the armour.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It sounds bizarre, but the paper reports that in a recent demonstration an armoured personnel carrier protected by the system withstood repeated attacks by rocket grenades that would normally have destroyed it many times over.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I read the article, Star Trek sprung to mind.  Not the new-fangled force fields, but the special kind of hull plating they seem to have in <i>Enterprise<\/i>.  When they seem about to enter battle, Captain Archer often requests that they &#8220;polarise the hull plating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And with scientists already having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99992419\" title=\"New Scientist article on teleporting light\">teleported beams of light<\/a>, can warp drive really be that far behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in The Register describes a new invention for protecting tanks and other armoured vehicles. It uses electrically charged plating to vaporise anti-tank missiles before they can penetrate the rest of the armour. &#8220;It sounds bizarre, but the paper reports that in a recent demonstration an armoured personnel carrier protected by the system withstood &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/08\/19\/force-fields\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Force fields!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}